How to produce nearly zero trash in a year – in pictures

How to produce nearly zero trash in a year – in pictures

Kathryn Kellogg aims to reduce the amount of waste she produces to almost nothing. She buys secondhand, uses cloth bags and glass jars for shopping, composts leftovers, and views recycling as a last resort. It takes great determination, but being vegetarian and lactose-intolerant helps

Fri 22 Apr 2016 06.00 EDT
Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 15.33 EDT

Kathryn Kellogg, a zero-waste practitioner, with a jar containing the total amount of landfill waste she’s generated in the past year, at her home in Vallejo, California. All Photographs: Andrew Burton for the Guardian